No ceasefire, more suffering - 2.2.2026

The partial reopening of the Rafah crossing is being presented as humanitarian progress. It is not. It is a rationed mercy imposed under occupation.

After two years of total closure, Israeli forces will allow Rafah to operate for just six hours a day, permitting only 150 Palestinians to leave Gaza and 50 to enter. This is not relief; it is triage under siege. Tens of thousands of critically ill and wounded Palestinians — many of them children — remain trapped, while Gaza health officials report that more than 1,200 people have already died waiting for medical transfer denied by this closure.

Across the border, Egypt has prepared thousands of medical staff, hundreds of hospitals, and fleets of ambulances. The capacity exists. What is missing is freedom of movement — deliberately withheld.

For families like Mohammed Mahdi’s, whose father was suddenly cleared to leave after hope had all but died, the system feels “like a dream.” But dreams rationed by force are not justice.

This cruelty is compounded by continued Israeli airstrikes that have killed at least 30 people this weekend alone, including six children, in clear violation of the ceasefire.

A humanitarian corridor that operates by quota, under bombs, is not a ceasefire. 

When Enforcement Becomes Lawlessness - 2.2.2026

Across the United States, seething anger is no longer simmering—it is erupting. More than 300 anti-ICE protests in a single day are not the work of agitators; they are the unmistakable signal of a public pushed past its limit.

What is unfolding under the banner of immigration enforcement bears the hallmarks of democratic erosion. Masked agents, unmarked vehicles, warrantless actions, and intimidation tactics have no place in a constitutional republic. When fear replaces due process, the law is no longer being enforced—it is being violated.

Chicago’s decision to order local law enforcement to investigate illegal activity by federal immigration agents is both necessary and overdue. Federal authority does not confer immunity from the law. It demands higher accountability, not exemption from it.

History is unambiguous: when the state treats communities as enemies, legitimacy collapses. Raids that terrorize families, destabilize neighborhoods, and bypass oversight do not make the country safer. They fracture trust and harden resistance.

Democracy does not survive by silence. It survives when people stand, protest, and insist that power answer to the law—not stand above it.